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The lineup has been revealed for the 2019 UNIFY Gathering, which is set to take place on January 11-13 in South Gippsland, Australia. Notably, I Killed The Prom Queen’s “classic lineup”, featuring Jona Weinhofen, Kevin Cameron, Michael Crafter, JJ Peters, and Sean Kennedy, will be reuniting for a one-off performance to celebrate the 15th anniversary of “When Goodbye Means Forever.“ Aside from them, the event will also include:

January 11: Underoath, Karnivool, In Hearts Wake, Ocean Grove, While She Sleeps, Crossfaith, Dream On Dreamer, The Plot In You, Hand Of Mercy, Dream State, Drown This City, Ocean Sleeper, and Better Half.

Underoath have shared a new video in which Spencer Chamberlain and Aaron Gillepsie open up about their issues with modern Christianity. You can check that out below. Back around 2009, the group stopped identifying as a Christian band and have continued to distance themselves from the label in recent months.

The initial lineup has been revealed for the 2018 iMatter Festival. The event will take place at the Chemung County Fairgrounds in Horseheads, NY on August 12, and it will include: Underoath, August Burns Red, Impending Doom, ’68, Slaves, Sworn In (performing “Start/End“), Such Gold, Belmont, Misgiver, The Funeral Portrait, and Awake At Last.

Back around 2009, Underoath stopped identifying themselves as a Christian band. Now, during an interview with Loudwire, Spencer Chamberlain said he doesn’t believe religion should have a place in music.

Chamberlain said the following:

“So a band is a bunch of personalities. It’s like being married… If anyone’s been in a relationship, trying to keep your girlfriend happy or your wife or your boyfriend or whoever… is a lot of work. Add a bunch of people into that, all different personalities, that’s a lot of work.

But then put a guideline, a rule, overtop of it saying ‘now we all have to believe the same thing.’ That’s like saying… you’re in my band and I’m like ‘I’m going vegan and so is he and if you don’t you’re out of the band.’ And you’re kinda like ‘That’s not really how humanity works.’

Putting a religion on a band; we’re all six individuals, that’s really unfair. What if someone decides to go down a different path? What if someone has questions? What if someone maybe just doesn’t feel right with stuff anymore?

And that pressure was really hard, because if you questioned that within the band, there was kind of this facade and smoke and mirror effect going and like, I know you’re not telling me how you really feel because you don’t want to cross that boundary of sounding like you’re not a Christian anymore, and same with this guy. No one’s talking anymore; there’s all this inner turmoil because we couldn’t talk about shit.

I just think it’s really inhumane and I don’t think religion should be in music. I don’t really care what Maynard [James Keenan of Tool, etc.] believes in, I think his music is great.”

He later added:

“I don’t hate any religion. I think anyone should be entitled to do whatever the fuck they wanna do. But for us, there was a lot of weird pressure and weird stuff behind the scenes. And people sing things that they are but they aren’t and vice versa. They like made a painting out of me. Since 2006 on, when it came out that I had problems with drugs, there was never any help.

It was just like ‘let’s crucify that guy. Because look how terrible of an example of a Christian he is.’ Not one person offered to help me. It was just like ‘fuck that guy, let’s get him out of here.’”